Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

The 2002 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies
(CLETA02) was the first effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) to collect information from law enforcement training academies
across the United States. The CLETA02 included all currently
operating academies that provided basic law enforcement training.
Academies that provided only in-service training,
corrections/detention training, or other special types of training
were excluded. Data were collected on personnel, expenditures,
facilities, equipment, trainees, training curricula, and a variety of
special topic areas. As of year-end 2002, a total of 626 law
enforcement academies operating in the United States offered basic law
enforcement training to individuals recruited or seeking to become law
enforcement officers.

The 2002 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies
(CLETA02) was the first effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
(BJS) to collect information from law enforcement training academies
across the United States. The CLETA02 included all currently
operating academies that provided basic law enforcement training.
Academies that provided only in-service training,
corrections/detention training, or other special types of training
were excluded. Data were collected on personnel, expenditures,
facilities, equipment, trainees, training curricula, and a variety of
special topic areas. As of year-end 2002, a total of 626 law
enforcement academies operating in the United States offered basic law
enforcement training to individuals recruited or seeking to become law
enforcement officers.

Access Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Universe:
All currently operating academies that provided basic law
enforcement training in the United States.

Data Type(s):
census/enumeration data

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:
mail questionnaire

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: